In some states, helmets remain optional—just as in some states, helmets remain optional.
May 2005
May 10, 2005
The fifth set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly reactionary rightwing blogs sneer at homosexuals and minorities of all stripes
1970s, group 5 MASH (1970) Kelly’s Heroes (1970) Cross of Iron (1977) The Duellists (1977) The Sentinel (1977) The Stepford Wives (1975) Don’t Look Now (1973) Westworld (1973) The Andromeda Strain (1971) Zabriskie Point (1970) Deliverance (1972) Saturday Night Fever (1977) The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) The Deep (1977) Network (1976) Alien (1979) …And Justice for All (1979) Duel (1971) The Wanderers (1979) The Warriors (1979) ***** So. How
May 10, 2005
I have errands to run for the next couple hours or so
If it helps, though, try to imagine this space filled with cutesy cat photos. That’s what I always do.
May 10, 2005
Forty-first in a series of real-time empirical observations.
In the time it takes you to read this post, roughly 20 million American males between the ages of 30-45 will toiling away at jobs they hate—all while Bill Gates licks warm lobster bisque off the perfect gumdrop-shaped nipples of a pair of spike-heeled Honduran teens he’s had flown in for the day. Me, I’ll be trying to get Windows to recognize my fucking USB headphones.* Plug and play my
May 10, 2005
Talking back to 80s music, 44
Thanks, but if it’s all the same to you I think I’m just gonna, y’know, keep it. Man. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Give It Away”
May 9, 2005
“Spielberg Weeps At Star Wars Screening”
From contactmusic.com: Director Steven Spielberg wept at a premiere of pal Georg Lucas’ final Star Wars movie, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Jurassic Park film-maker Spielberg was so moved by the eagerly-awaited conclusion of the sci-fi saga, he burst into tears at its screening last week […]. But he’s unashamed by his tears, insisting fans will also cry at the end of the film, because its moving conclusion marks
May 9, 2005
What a report on the UN oil-for-food scandal might look like were it delivered by a Grey-Cheeked Mangabey
Grey-Cheeked Mangabey: ”Whoop-gobble whoop-gobble aw aw eet! Aw aw eet, eet, eet, whoop gobble, eet eet! Aw aw among increased concerns that the Volcker committee is covering up evidence that implicates UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the scandal eet eet eet! Eet eet whoop-gobble whoop-gooble, eet eet eet!*
May 9, 2005
Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin a case of mistaken identity?
From the Sunday Times Online (UK): The capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terrorâ€Â. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam†of the organisation. […] Another
May 9, 2005
Creating new terrorists: Chimpy McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history continues, #13
From the BBC: The US military in Iraq says it has killed 75 insurgents, including foreign fighters, in a desert region close to the border with Syria. The operation, in Anbar province, involved air and ground forces, the military said in a statement. A day earlier, the US said it had killed six insurgents and detained 54 suspects in raids in the area. […] Parliament finally approved the key defence
May 9, 2005
metrosexuals in the wild: a darwinian consideration, 1
From amusingfacts.com: After trying everything, including ocelot poop, snake shed and musk, the Dallas, Texas, zoo could not get rare ocelots to breed until they used Calvin Klein men’s cologne. Rumors that the female ocelot got drunk on Stoli Vanilla and let the spice-splashed male woo her with a lot of breezy chat about New Zealand wines and the films of Antonioni could not be confirmed—though I have a friend